[monkeywrench]

Check your local zoning laws. Chances are they're breaking some ordinance or other. Landlords seem to be getting a pass everywhere by packing these people into single family dwellings, and not paying their share of taxes.

[Penny]

Good idea, and thank you for it. To my dismay, however, the city inspectors have failed to follow up on my reports of the activity of running a business out of the house (plumbing business). Then, trucks pull around at 6am or so, picking up the crew for plumbing and other odd jobs.

Furthermore, because their house is larger and costlier than mine, I've wondered how they afford it AND the new pickups and SUVs that are always parked around (again, taking up parking in front of my house, too). So I have reported the name of both the house owner and the plumbing company name I see on trucks parked there (in letter form and by telephone) to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the IRS--but nothing in the bureau indicates anyone there gives a darn.

So I live with the cig. butts and the noise and the congestion and the clutter and the ugliness of ten or so bare-chested guys sitting on a front lawn, keeping me from letting the children out the front door to play.

Can you tell I'm angry?

Thank you for writing . . . Penny